[ILUG] Firewalls... linux -v- BSD

[Nick Murtagh]

Lars Hecking wrote:
>  It is an advantage over Linux distributions IMHO that the base system is
>  not made up of oodles of packages that all are created and maintained by
>  different groups. But I'm not proselytising here ;-)

It is an advantage, but that's completely unrelated to package
management :)

The base system and kernel aren't covered by the package management
system. In fact you have to recompile stuff if there are updates.

In other words, no proper package management system as I originally
stated.